how to crop an image

[kevpc]

hi all. another newbie so please bear with me. would someone be good enough to tell me how to crop an image please? for example, if i take a print screen of my desktop, how to i crop that screen to show just the part i want? sorry if this is a dumb question that has been answered before.

many TIA

[barbieq25]

Firstly, welcome to the forum!

When I am not madly producing artwork, I am a teacher & I love questions!

Here is a response from one of our moderators EER:

Select the area you wish to crop to using one of the selection tools .

Press Ctrl+Shift+x to crop to the selection.

People get a bit antsy if you don't try to use the search function but search is only as helpful as asking the right question & using the context specific terminology.

Bear in mind too, that the above makes the whole image (canvas & all) the size that you've cropped to.

Please feel free to Private Message (PM) me. I'll help here I can.

Also, the way you've succinctly put the request for help in the subject line is very good! Again welcome.

[Curmudgeon]

This two webpages may help you understand it:

http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/ImageMenu.html

http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/SelectionTools.html

[kevpc]

hi again. many tnx for replies. i did try the search function first, but got no specific reply to my question, hence the post. as you say, this could easily be because of the way i asked the question. anyway, tnx again, much appreciated. gonna look at the 2 links posted as well.

[barbieq25]

No probs...only too pleased to help out.

Look forward to seeing some of your creations!

[DaveL60]

Bear in mind too, that the above makes the whole image (canvas & all) the size that you've cropped to.

If you don't want that, another approach is to select the part you want to keep, use ctrl-I to invert the selection, and hit the delete key to remove the stuff you don't want.

DaveL